For Yous Data - Pre-Inca Funeral Towers Inwards Bolivia Rebuilt

On the slopes of the hills that edge Lake Titicaca, inwards the Bolivian Andes, at that spot are about 300 chullpas or pre-Inca burial towers, destroyed past times the passage of fourth dimension or past times looting, which have got begun to hold upwards rebuilt past times the locals.

Picture showing restored pre-Inca funerary towers known every bit chullpas, erected at the Qala Uta archaeological site close
Quehuaya, on the slopes of the hills bordering Lake Titicaca inwards the Bolivian Andes about seventy km due west of La Paz, taken
 during the presentation of vi restored towers, on June 14, 2018. With fiscal back upwards from Switzerland together with inwards
coordination alongside the Culture Ministry, locals have got reconstructed vi of the 300 chullpas which have got been torn
down past times fourth dimension or looting inwards the expanse [Credit: Aizar Raldes/AFP]

The 'chullpas' are rock together with clay towers built during the Aymara dominion betwixt the years chiliad together with 1400, later the collapse of the Tiwanaku civilization together with earlier the Inca Empire was conquered.

Near the town of Quehuaya, to a greater extent than than seventy kilometers due west of La Paz, is the archaeological site of Qala Uta ('Stone House' inwards Aymara), where traces of these constructions used to bury the nobles, priests or shamans, the armed services together with the wealthy inwards baskets have got been found.

Picture of a restored pre-Inca funerary tower known every bit chullpa, erected at the Qala Uta archaeological site close
Quehuaya, on the slopes of the hills bordering Lake Titicaca inwards the Bolivian Andes about seventy km due west of La Paz,
taken during the presentation of vi restored towers, on June 14, 2018. With fiscal back upwards from
Switzerland together with inwards coordination alongside the Culture Ministry, locals have got reconstructed vi of the 300
chullpas which have got been torn downwardly past times fourth dimension or looting inwards the expanse [Credit: Aizar Raldes/AFP]

Their bodies were placed side past times side to ceramic pieces, such every bit cups together with bowls, every bit good every bit gilded together with argent objects.

The funeral towers have got like dimensions: a two-storey rectangular structure, 2 metres broad together with upwards to 3.5 metres high, alongside 2 inner chambers. Two to 4 dead were placed inwards each sleeping accommodation together with were ever built inside walking distance of the menage unit of measurement home.

Picture showing restored pre-Inca funerary towers known every bit chullpas, erected at the Qala Uta archaeological site close
Quehuaya, on the slopes of the hills bordering Lake Titicaca inwards the Bolivian Andes about seventy km due west of La Paz, taken
during the presentation of vi restored towers, on June 14, 2018. With fiscal back upwards from Switzerland together with inwards
coordination alongside the Culture Ministry, locals have got reconstructed vi of the 300 chullpas which have got been
torn downwardly past times fourth dimension or looting inwards the expanse [Credit: Aizar Raldes/AFP]

In the expanse at that spot was a populous citadel of the Aymara kingdom of Pacaje, which cultivated beans, potatoes together with quinoa. Its introduce inhabitants, every bit good Aymara, have got lost the ancestral custom of edifice these towers together with today bury their dead inwards coffins inwards world cemeteries.

"This is a citadel alongside nigh 300 structures, or chullpares, built betwixt individual houses together with other buildings, made alone of stone, from the foundations to the roof," explains Isaac Callizaya, the local municipality's tourism manager.

Picture of a restored pre-Inca funerary tower known every bit chullpa, erected at the Qala Uta archaeological site close
Quehuaya, on the slopes of the hills bordering Lake Titicaca inwards the Bolivian Andes about seventy km due west of La Paz,
 taken during the presentation of vi restored towers, on June 14, 2018. With fiscal back upwards from
Switzerland together with inwards coordination alongside the Culture Ministry, locals have got reconstructed vi of the 300
chullpas which have got been torn downwardly past times fourth dimension or looting inwards the expanse [Credit: Aizar Raldes/AFP]

In Quehuaya, chullpas have got been constitute inwards an expanse of ​​two foursquare kilometres, which makes the identify 1 of the largest chullpares inwards Bolivia. The 3 hundred funerary towers are demolished together with merely modest quadrangular rock walls are visible.

Oscar Limachi, 1 of those involved inwards the restoration work, explains that 'the weather condition together with the rain' have got caused its destruction. Although it was declared an archaeological site inwards the 1930s, it has non received the necessary care.

A human being looks at 2 restored pre-Inca funerary towers known every bit chullpas, erected at the Qala Uta archaeological site
near Quehuaya, on the slopes of the hills bordering Lake Titicaca inwards the Bolivian Andes about seventy km due west of La Paz,
during the presentation of vi restored towers, on June 14, 2018. With fiscal back upwards from Switzerland
 and inwards coordination alongside the Culture Ministry, locals have got reconstructed vi of the 300 chullpas
which have got been torn downwardly past times fourth dimension or looting inwards the expanse [Credit: Aizar Raldes/AFP]

The manager of the National Unit of Archaeology, José Luis Paz, adds that at that spot has every bit good been looting of valuable pieces that the mourners had placed side past times side to their dead.

With the role of recovering theit collective memory, studying the habits of life of the Pacaje kingdom together with turning the identify into a tourist site, vi chullpas have got been rebuilt alongside fiscal back upwards from Switzerland, which contributed about 50,000 dollars, inwards coordination alongside the Ministry of Culture from Bolivia.

Picture of 2 restored pre-Inca funerary towers known every bit chullpas, erected at the Qala Uta archaeological site close
Quehuaya, on the slopes of the hills bordering Lake Titicaca inwards the Bolivian Andes about seventy km due west of La Paz,
taken during the presentation of vi restored towers, on June 14, 2018. With fiscal back upwards from Switzerland
and inwards coordination alongside the Culture Ministry, locals have got reconstructed vi of the 300 chullpas
which have got been torn downwardly past times fourth dimension or looting inwards the expanse [Credit: Aizar Raldes/AFP]

The Bolivian authorities plans to rebuild to a greater extent than funerary towers together with has promised economical resources.

Limachi relates that he, his parents together with his grandparents ever saw the funeral towers alongside respect, together with fifty-fifty fear, because it was a sacred place.

'Our ancestors alive here,' he says, evoking the Aymara's belief that the spirits of their dead exercise non abandon them.

Men stand upwards close a restored pre-Inca funerary tower known every bit chullpa, at the Qala Uta archaeological site near
 Quehuaya, on the slopes of the hills bordering Lake Titicaca inwards the Bolivian Andes about seventy km due west of La Paz,
during the presentation of vi restored towers, on June 14, 2018. With fiscal back upwards from Switzerland
and inwards coordination alongside the Culture Ministry, locals have got reconstructed vi of the 300 chullpas
which have got been torn downwardly past times fourth dimension or looting inwards the expanse [Credit: Aizar Raldes/AFP]

'We have got never been able to dig, because it attacks us psychologically, it affects the spirit of the person,' he explains.

Before start the reconstruction, inwards 2017, religious ceremonies were held alongside 'yatiris' (Andean priests) to inquire permission to the spirits that roam the place.

'Without ceremonies nosotros tin larn sick,' Limachi said.

Source: AFP [June 21, 2018]


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